Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Recovery from recovery

[Decibel!]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:11:49PM -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Decibel! wrote:
> > Actually, this is backing up an Intel Mac to a FreeBSD box. I'm not
> > trying to restore right now, just back out the failed backup. Simply
> > removing the file from the backup resulted in another error (which I
> > didn't think to capture), so I've just deleted it from the metadata
> > (along with another file that was also mode 896)... that did the trick
> > (though I'd be a bit surprised if it didn't...)
> > 
> > Though, the error occurred before it reported "Regressing attributes",
> > which makes me think this is a different issue (or the logging isn't
> > quite accurate).
> 
> Jim, thanks for finding this problem. I've added code to CVS (1.1.13) to
> log and handle this situation in the future.
> 
> The reason the error occurred before it reported "Regressing attributes"
> is because error messages and log messages take different paths (and
> different buffers) to the output device. The stack trace and mode 896
> (1600 in octal) proves that the issue was due to setting the sticky bit
> on a non-directory.

Great, thanks!

Now if only we could do away with the need to recover from a failed
backup... :)
-- 
Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect  address@hidden 
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